Heat Problems? Has anyone else had problems with their drive?
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Yes, I have had similar issues with other external, enclosed USB hard drives. That is, they get VERY hot, and then shut down after about 30 minutes of operation. These enclosed drives are pretty much useless unless they have a vent and cooling fan. I really don't know how anyone uses them successfully. The only way I have been able to use them is to keep them completely open, which means removing all the casing and just laying the bare drive and it's connenctors out in open. Pretty ugly, but it will run all day like this :-)
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This just hints to the fact that the freezing is a hardware issue (badly seated heatsink for example) and not a software issue. I've noticed it freezes a lot more on hot sunny days.
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iOmega said "It is normal for hard drives to get hot (to the point where you still can touch them) especially for big capacity ones. Also make sure to keep your drive in well ventilated place, preferably not too close to other electric/heat emitting devices".The blue screen was caused when I encrypted part of the new drive badly. All is well and as is usual in my case - my fault! A happy owner now.
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If you are talking about a hard drive, I'm kinda partial to WD. I've had a few and none have given me any problem. If LG optical dvd - same comment
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Looks like the drive is set up to go to "sleep" after a period of time. That affects a lot of operations, and there's no direct fix for it.
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It will. I had a little less than 1.4tb left on the drive. No idea about over heating but I have not had any issues.
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I have found the G Drives to be more stable. Have had some LaCies fail on me.
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Ive noticed mine running quite a bit hotter, I think its because the system is able to run faster, so it takes a little more power to the processor. I have compared power specs of the drives, and they are VERY similar, so its not a problem there. I can get a thermometer and compare temps, I have a stock one I use also, so I can run them side by side, and take temps from both to see how they compare. I have ran it quite a bit with the new drive, it IS noticeably faster, and I haven't had any issues yet with stability or crashes.
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This happened to me. 2 months. They honored the warranty and immediately sent me a replacement drive. Just call technical support.
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Yep. After using it initially, I couldn't get windows to see it any more so took it apart. The drive is a Toshiba, which gets great ratings on drives. The problem with the errors could be a windows USB3 driver. Still not sure. Might re-assemble it to see if anything has changed.
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I put mine in a NAS. The NAS auto-formatted it. Sounds like a bad drive. Try connecting to another system if you can. Try removing it from the case (which could defective) and re-connect.
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Yes there is a problem with yours. I've had mine since its issue and it never gets hot -warm at most when playing extended games or videos. I have a Surface Pro 2 now, but I keep the Portege as a very reliable backup and for occasional ripping or burning (no pun intended) of CDs.
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It does not do anything when connected. The first time I connected it, it I could see the drive C but couldn't access any info off the drive. Then it got hot and now it won't do anything.
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I own the 1 TB model and also noticed the heat buildup. I keep my unit off unless I'm backing up data. Had it a year and so far, so good.
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I too haven't had any issues. There are heat settings that you can adjust. If it doesn't heat up, you may have a defective unit.
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I tested it with two different 4TB drives: the WD Red 40EFRX and the WD RE WD4000FYYZ. First the Red: this model has a design flaw which causes it to load/unload the heads continuously, basically grinding the drive down to an early death. Other than that minor inconvenience, the Red works fine. The WD4000FYYZ: this drive generates a lot of heat and should not be used in an enclosure that doesn't have a fan. Other than that, it works fine as well.
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The cable for this drive is short and hi-speed. It could but it would be a short connection. You could buy another longer cable from Amazon.com seperately. BUT the overall speed dimeninishes to the Nth the longer the cord gets. If you get a cord that is twice as long expect to reduce speeds about 10-15%. Rebbeca Blackmon also had a good point saying there definitely could be overheating issues!Hope this helps.